26-10-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Stuck in a village in southern India for nine months and unable to return to his job in Saudi Arabia, Sugathan PR is hoping the World Health Organization (WHO) will approve the Indian COVID-19 shot Covaxin, paving the way for his trip back. Like Sugathan, …

26-10-2021 LOS ANGELES: Two people were killed Monday and four others were injured — including a police officer — when a gunman opened fire in a shopping mall in the US state of Idaho. Police in Boise were called to the mall with reports “that at least one person was …

26-10-2021 Bureau Report CANBERRA/ MELBOURNE: One of the world’s most criticized polluters, Australia, has promised it will achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. PM Scott Morrison made the long-delayed pledge after bargaining with resistant MPs within his government. He said Australia had a plan to lower emissions, but it …

26-10-2021 KHARTOUM: At least seven people have been killed and 140 injured as thousands took to the streets in protest after Sudan’s military seized power from a transitional government. Thousands of people joined rallies against the military takeover on the streets of the capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of …

25-10-2021 NEW YORK: The so-called Facebook Papers, leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen, have already revealed the impact of Facebook as well as of WhatsApp and Instagram, both of which it owns, on the deep polarization of politics in the United States and on the mental health of some teenagers but …

25-10-2021 BOGOTA: Colombia’s most wanted drug trafficker and the leader of the country’s largest criminal gang has been captured. Dairo Antonio Úsuga, better known as Otoniel, was seized after a joint operation by the army, air force and police on Saturday. The government had offered a $800,000 (£582,000) reward for …

25-10-2021 BHUBANESWAR, ODISHA: A 17-year-old man in India’s Odisha has been arrested by police after he sold off his young wife to a 55-year-old man to buy a cellular phone. According to a report by The Hindustan Times, the teenager, who got married in July this year, found a job …

25-10-2021 ROME: For some people, going to prison can feel like escaping to freedom. A man under house arrest in Italy showed up at a police barracks asking to be put behind bars because life with his wife at home was unbearable, police said Sunday. The 30-year-old Albanian citizen living …

Incident comes a day after Union home minister Amit Shah had made overtures to Kashmir’s youth seeking their help to weed out militancy A 20-year-old died in alleged CRPF firing in Shopian district on Sunday, a day after Union home minister Amit Shah had made overtures to Kashmir’s youth seeking …

srinager’25’oct 2021-Union Home Minister Amit Shah today paid his obeisance to Goddess Ragyna at Kheer Bhawani temple in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district on the last day of his three-day visit to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. He was accompanied by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha. Earlier, while addressing a public …